The instant Sunday Times bestseller
'I loved this book' DERREN BROWN
What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get round to what counts?
We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, the struggle against distraction, and the sense that our attention spans are shrivelling. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks.
Four Thousand Weeks is an uplifting, engrossing and deeply realistic exploration of the challenge. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' it introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.
And it shows how the unhelpful ways we've come to think about time aren't inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we've made, as individuals and as a society. Its many revelations will transform the reader's worldview.
Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman sets out to realign our relationship with time - and in doing so, to liberate us from its tyranny.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Random House International
ISBN: 9781847924025
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 26/08/2021
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman es un escritor y periodista británico que, actualmente, vive en Nueva York. Su trabajo ha sido reconocido en varias ocasiones, fue nominado al Premio Orwell en 2006 y nombrado Joven Periodista del Año por The Foreign Press Association. Es autor de varios éxitos de ventas como El antídoto: felicidad para gente que no soporta el pensamiento positivo, Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done y del best seller internacional, Cuatro mil semanas: gestión del tiempo para mortales. Asimismo, también escribe la popular columna semanal de psicología de The Guardian «This Column Will Change Your Life», en la que trata todo tipo de cuestiones vinculadas al mundo de la psicología, la filosofía y la salud mental, entre otros. @oliverburkeman